I don't know why they call weed the devil's lettuce when, if the devil has any kind of lettuce, it's that diarrhea lettuce

Prob mentioned this, but MAP03 has some of the oldest sectorwork remaining in the current project, tied with or very close to MAP08-- both had the first areas laid down just after RAMP2022! this has led to a *lot* of whatever the map geometry counterpart of tech debt is. working through it tho

wordcels stay winning

the new version of uzdoom will probably either make my life amazing or make me want to kill myself. not sure how much room there is for a secret third option

If I worked at an investment firm and was the tallest guy there (statistically I likely would be) I would spend all my time microaggressing my coworkers by asking them about "short positions"

Do you think Sisko has ever said to the Prophets "Your tears sustain me"

A lot of the “kids online safety” proponents actually are anti-LGBTQ extremists and fundamentalists who want kids to have less freedom and don’t care if that actually makes them tremendously less safe too

It really has just been absolutely dumbfounding the numbers of people who putatively represented the upper echelons of intellectual & cognitive achievement, who were all along just waiting for the correct prompting (as it were) to fire their birthright of sapience and creativity into the incinerator

somehow I got no mistakes (and the "efficient 12-click minimum" bonus which this doesn't show) despite having a completely incorrect reasoning in my mind for each triplet after the first

sometimes I think how the tech behind genAI possibly could have been used to make tools for helping create things with integrity, but we got "pull the lever until you get something passable, then lie & take credit for it" bc that's all that techbros and their millions of consumer piggies really want

Secret Panel HERE 😌 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/balancing-out-28106977

planning brain: okay so we need to touch this area up a bit, make sure everything's aligned decently, that sort of thing. doombuilder brain: instructions unclear; began retexturing entire area

the drawback/side effect is that this also works for making yourself forget to go get the fuck in bed

lifehack: since men only think about sex every seven seconds, they can avoid ever thinking about sex w/ other men by ensuring that they are only gay in the short intervals between those sex thoughts

Worked on a lot of areas today chipping away at little bits and pieces, but no one thing that I really feel like showing off in a screenshot, so here's an editor shot for the last day of June. Much of this, tbc, was old construction, but it includes many of the places where I was sprucing stuff up.

transphobes should burn for legal reasons I mean in hell

There were a lot of not great things about growing up queer in the 90s, let me tell you, and it would be cool if we collectively remembered the lessons of that

It was literally four years ago that I laid down the first passes on what would eventually become this area, and it may, I dare to suggest, finally be approaching the state of "doesn't suck ass" (the map has been largely complete for a year or two now but that last 5-10% is, as always, a killer)

With MAP00's sectorwork mostly in the can, I've decided to move back to touching up (or in some cases, more than touching up) other maps for the last few days of Screenshot June Here's a setpiece fairly early on in MAP03.

I did in fact end up deciding that the lower alcoves on either side of the wooden altar weren't the best and just did this instead. Second bonus screenshot since both of them today are pretty lame, quotidian areas.

the only update to youtube shorts that I want is bomb collars around the necks of everyone responsible, that will explode if anyone ever sees them again after clicking "show me fewer shorts"

in the doom novels when that guy tried to describe the spider mastermind as a "goblin", flynn taggart should have asked him if it was a mind goblin

just caught myself thinking of making sloped ripples on the sand for a floor with a texture that already has ripples in it

GPT-1s? Thank you but I already have a way to make myself forget to eat, it's called "Open Doombuilder"

one of those days where I puttered around in some different parts of the map, didn't get any single thing done to a particularly impressive degree. Might delete those alcoves on the sides, and replace them with some other sort of wall detail.

It's been incredibly gut-punching how many of the science/math communicators I loved have started taking sponsorships from ai slop merchants. Like, your work is a testament to the sapient brain, its curiosities and capabilities, and I thought you thought so too. Why sell that for a mess of pottage

"did you get those crates stacked out of the way?" "sure did boss, right where they'll stop any dumbass marines from squeezing around the end of the security fence"

not done yet by any means but definitely at "the sausage has been made and is producing wonderful smells on the grill" I'd really missed the feel of making a new map from scratch as opposed to grinding through tidying up the horrible parts of a map that's 90% (or whatever) done

didn't make enough progress today for a "show off the cool setpiece I did" screenshot. instead you get a screenshot from the "sausage being made" genre

the pokemon writers will say anything. "we let a small child walk around in control of this monster that emits heat literally hundreds of times as hot as the surface of the sun." no you don't. that isn't true.

I think it's just about time to call the geometry of this room done, at last. There will be a bit of scripting and testing to do still, but I think I've executed pretty much all the sectorwork. 🎉

I wonder how many more Doom maps I'd have published if I didn't have whatever soul-component makes people do shit like this (I did some other stuff in this room today too but this is the screenshot that sums up the day; I'll post a wider view when I've got the room closer to finished)

If you want to fully honor Bobby Prince's memory you have to listen to Running From Evil on loop for at least eight hours straight. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules.

I know just the gumshoes for this case

another update that is more "daily proof of [mapping] life" than any architecture that'll blow anyone's socks off. Gotta make the non-setpiece parts of the map sometime too.

using AI at any stage of game development is loser shit but the excuse of "oh we only used it during the concept art stage" is always insane to me. concept art is literally the fun part. you asked the robot to do the fun part for you. do you also need the robot to eat dessert for you

feel relatively unaccomplished today but did add some details to various rooms, of which, have the following sample for today's screenshot(s).

(this is a random post and not actually a feature that my mod will have. sadly.)

new "weapon" that's actually just Doomguy grabbing the enemy's skull with one hand and punching it in the face with the other until it dies. replaces the fist.

It feels difficult to overstate how ready I am for the sun to attain its maximum bullshit and begin receding again

still on my bullshit in this one area (in fairness, I've had to iterate over it multiple times at this point to find things that felt like they would work). the ceiling symbol is my solution to "I want the big room at the foot of the stairs to be at least a bit brighter, what's the source?" -cont-

If you use AI slop to promote your book, you are dead to me. If you retweet AI slop I will unfollow you. We all have to draw our own lines against this blob of thieving, world-damaging nonsense. These are mine.

kept working on this area for today's mapping time. Painstaking figuring out how to make it work visually in a way I can execute and am happy with, but it's getting there.

This is gonna be today's screenshot. Was thinking I might do more, but I need a break. I like the way this room is coming; still got a long way to go, but the concept is pretty well proved I think!

every team has that asshole who puts the crates where it's a pain in the ass for anyone else to get them back out

When my interests intersect unexpectedly